Xu Yongyi, the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, who has always been the main peace, was silent tonight, neither the main battle nor the main peace, but no one paid attention to him, and everyone's attention was focused on the people who were arguing.

"Okay, stop arguing." Cixi's eyes were closed, and she was half-loud, and when the hall was quiet, she opened her eyes and said sharply: "Let you come to the discussion, let you think of a way, not let you quarrel, Rong Lu will stay first, and the rest of the people will retreat, and we will discuss it next time." ”

"Your Ministers obey." Everyone had no choice but to bow and then exit the main hall.

Soon, only Cixi, Ronglu and a few palace maids and eunuchs were left in the palace, even the Guangxu Emperor Yanjing retreated, since the failure of the Wuxu Reform two years ago, Cixi held all the power of the Qing Dynasty, he was placed under house arrest in Yingtai, a few days ago he was almost assassinated, the Empress Dowager Cixi brought him to the palace to participate in politics together, but there was no right to speak, just a puppet.

I don't know how long it took, Cixi said directly to Rong Lu: "You are in control of the military guard rear army, and you have always been my most trusted person, do you think that now I am fighting or making peace in the Qing Dynasty??" ”

"Queen Mother, now that I am ready to send an arrow on the string, even if we want to make peace now, the foreigners will not let us go, so we have to fight now, but we can't fight all of them." There was no one else in this hall, and the palace maids and eunuchs next to him were also Cixi's henchmen, and he had nothing to scruple about, so he directly said his thoughts.

"What's the way to play?" Cixi asked suspiciously. In fact, she didn't have any good methods, and from the beginning, she didn't really want to go to war, but because she received false information, saying that the Eight-Nation Alliance's attack on the Qing Dynasty was to re-establish Guangxu and seize her power, so she listened to the opinions of the main battle faction, and before, there had always been people who bewitched that the threat of the Boxers was greater than that of the Eight-Nation Alliance, so she agreed to go to war, but since the declaration of war, she has been in extreme panic for more than ten days, In particular, the Dagukou Fort was breached after only six hours, which made her even more afraid, she was afraid that the Eight-Nation Alliance would capture Tianjin, she was afraid that the Eight-Nation Alliance would enter Yanjing, and she was even more afraid that the Eight-Nation Alliance would drive her down from the pinnacle of power in the Qing Dynasty.

"Queen Mother, we can only promote peace now!" Rong Lu said.

"To make peace?" Cixi's brows furrowed, obviously she didn't quite understand what Rong Lu meant.

"Hmm." Rong Lu nodded and said, "We have to prepare for both now, and we must be prepared in case of defeat." ”

"Don't beat around the bush, just say it." The Empress Dowager Cixi said impatiently.

"We want to attack the embassy, but we can't attack the British embassy, because Britain is the head of the Eight-Nation Alliance, we can fight other embassies, so that the coalition forces are afraid, it is best to drive them to Tianjin, at the same time, we also have to send a large army to Tianjin, between Tianjin and Yanjing, set up a few more lines of defense, can not let the coalition forces hit Yanjing, if they suffer several big losses in a row, after heavy losses, they will not rashly attack, after all, the Qing Kingdom has a population of 450 million, Even one person can drown the coalition army with a mouthful of saliva. Rong Lu spoke eloquently, his tone was slow, but sonorous and powerful.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was relieved when she heard this, and she made up her mind and said: "Then to promote peace, I will leave this matter to you to handle, especially the embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane, you are in the main, Dong Xiangfu is outside, remember, don't let his Gan army make trouble for me." ”

In fact, Cixi's decision was very right, but it's a pity that she miscalculated, and Ronglu also miscalculated.

Historically, after the fall of Tianjin, the Wuwei army had set up several lines of defense between Tianjin and Yanjing, but unfortunately all of them were defeated by the coalition forces in one battle, and the coalition forces even arrived at Tongzhou, the eastern gateway of Yanjing, without a single soldier.

Moreover, the armed guards attacked the embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane for more than two months, because of the stoppage and stopping, the morale was lost, and no major progress was made, until later the embassy was not able to take down, and the coalition soldiers in the embassy of less than 1,000 people relied on advanced weapons to hold on until the main force of the coalition army broke through Yanjing City.

If the Empress Dowager Cixi knew these things in advance, she did not overestimate the command ability of the officers of the Armed Guards and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Armed Guards, I am afraid that she would not agree with Rong Lu's opinion, but it is a pity that now she seems to have only this way to go.

After a pause, Cixi asked again: "What about the Tiger Ben Army in Shandong?" ”

"No matter how strong the Tiger Ben Army is, it is only an army that has risen for less than half a year, and now there is Yuan Dashuai's army in Shandong to control it, and the Tiger Ben Army can't make waves, so it only needs to transfer a part of the patrol battalion soldiers from Jiangsu and Anhui to the north to echo with Yuan Dashuai in the north and south to eliminate the Tiger Ben Army." Rong Lu said.

Cixi's heart was relieved again, and said: "Okay, directly send an order to Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, so that while leading the army north to attack the Huben army, he will also send troops north to King Qin, and at the same time, send troops to the north to King Qin, and also, send an order to the governors and governors of the southern provinces to enter King Qinwang in Beijing!" ”

"Yes!" Rong Lu bowed down and obeyed.

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"Lord Xu, haven't you always been at peace? Why don't you see any movement today, do you also think that the current situation in the Qing Dynasty is suitable for fighting with the coalition forces? Walking out of the main hall, the Lord and Pai Yang Lishan walked with Xu Yongyi, and couldn't help but ask.

"Alas, Lord Yang, now that the army of my Great Qing Dynasty is in the hands of the main battle faction, and even the Boxers are controlled by them, although you and I can see the situation clearly, but what can we do? Blindly advocating peace will only arouse the hatred of the main battle faction, and when the time comes, under their indulgence, all the resentment of the people will be concentrated on us. Xu Yongyi sighed softly.

"Eat the king's luck, worry about the king, we are all pillars of the Qing Dynasty, obviously seeing the consequences of the war with the coalition forces, how can we stay out of the situation and remain neutral in such a situation?" Yang Lishan said with some dissatisfaction.

"Lord Yang will be wrong about the old man's meaning, the old man is already an old man who is about to die, and he doesn't have a few years to live, how can he be greedy for life and afraid of death?" Xu Yongyi sighed and said: "But once the Great Qing Dynasty is defeated, it always takes someone to negotiate peace with the coalition forces, so will it not be possible for the Queen Mother to negotiate peace with the coalition forces in person?" Now that I can't change the situation, I can only go with the flow, alas......"

"Lord Xu is right, the will of heaven cannot be violated, now that the Great Qing Kingdom and the coalition army are already like fire and water, even if the truce is afraid, it is no longer possible, alas...... The country is in decline, but ......" Yang Lishan said this, and couldn't help but sigh, sadness came from it.

"The people of my generation can't change their lives against the sky, they can only do their best and obey the fate of heaven." Xu Yongyi also lamented. He knew that although Yang Lishan was Cixi's confidant and was good at catering to Cixi's wishes, he was by no means a person who was flattering and flattering, Yang Lishan's heart at least contained the Jiangshan Sheji of the Great Qing Kingdom, and it was because of this that he would say this to Yang Lishan, if it was Xu Jingcheng and Yuan Chang, the two heads of the main and faction, he would never say it, this is not to say that these two people are afraid of the great powers, but they can see too clearly, and the main and thoughts in their hearts cannot be changed.

"I know how to do it, thank you Lord Xu for reminding me." Yang Lishan thanked Xu Yongyi. He knew that now he wanted to keep a useful body, and after the Great Qing Kingdom went through this catastrophe, he would work hard for the Great Qing Kingdom.

"The night road is dark, Lord Yang walks slowly all the way, and the old man will leave." Xu Yongyi also arched his hand and said.

"Lord Xu, it's easy to go."

(PS: Thank you for the real reward...... ）;